Crattsgus.] rosacea. 163 



£. Med. — In Whilefield wood, along the road to Brading ; plentiful in Sleyu 

 wood, near Bembridge ; near Haven-street, Dr. Bell-Salter !! 



7. R. arvensis, Huds. Trailing Dog Rose. Corn Rose, accord- 

 ing to Huds.) " Prickles uncinate, those of the ramuli feeble, 

 leaves simply serrated deciduous (glaucescent beneath) their disk 

 eglandulose, calyx-segments sparingly pinnate deciduous, styles 

 united hairless, shoots trailing." — £r. Fl. p. 131. E. B. t. 188. 



Ill hedges, thickets, copses and the bushy borders of fields ; in many parts of 

 the island, abundantly. 7^/. June, July. T^. 



E. Med. — In Whitefield wood, along the load to Brading. Plentiful in Steyn 

 wood, near Bembridge. 



W. Med. — Plentiful at Brixton, between the village and the Chine. Hedges 

 about Farringford House, and at the foot of Freshwater down, as indeed in most 

 parts of that vicinity, abundantly. 



Tribe V. Pome^. 

 " Fruit a 1—5 celled pome." — Bab. Man. 



XII. Ceat^gus, Linn. Hawthorn. 



" Calyx-segments short, acute. Petals large, roundish. Styles 

 1 — 5. Fruit oval or round, concealing the upper end of the cells, 

 which are bony." — Br. Fl. 



" Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade 

 To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep. 

 Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy 

 To kings that iear their subjects' treachery ?" 



Third Part of King Henry VJ., act 2, se. 5. 



1. C. Oxyacantha, li. Common Hawthorn. Whitethorn or 

 May.— Fr. Hogiles or Hogails, Vect. " Spiny, leaves glabrous 

 cut into 3 or 5 deeply serrated segments cuneate at the base, 

 flowers corymbose, calyx not glandular, styles 1 — 3." — Br. FL p. 

 132. E. B. t. 2604. 



j3. Style solitary. C. monogyna, Jacq. 



y. Fruit larger, elliptical-ovoid. C. Oxyacantha, Jaiq. Fl. Aust. iii. t. 292, 2 ? 

 Mespilus Apii folio sylvestris, Iblio et fructu majore, Dillw. in Ray's Syn. p. 454. 



8. Fruit and peduncles tomentose. C. eriocarpa, Lindl. Woolly - jruiled 

 Thorn. 



Everywhere planted for fencing, but abundantly wild in woods, thickets, bushy 

 pastures, fields, &c. F/. May, June. /V. September, October. Tp. 



|3. Woods and thickets everywlieie ; the most frequent, and I believe the only 

 form with us, as regards the number of the styles. 



y. In hedges, not uncommon. Plentilul between Yarmouth and Thorley, on 

 the right hand side of the road just beyond the little bridge. Near Coppid Hall. 



S. Pelbam woods, between Steephill and St. Lawrence, frequent, W. Wilson 

 Saunders, Esq. !!! In Liiccombe landslip. Idem. Near Bembridge. More 

 frequent than the glabrous-fruited kind. 



A tree, when left to itself, from 20—30 feet or even more in height, with a las- 

 tigiate or pvramidal mode of growth, sometimes a rigid thorny shrub ol 6—10 

 feet, the bark of the smaller branches and on the btcm of young trees very smooth, 

 the former in the wild slate mostly armed with sharp spines, ttririiiiating the late- 

 ral shoots, but these, in old trees at least, are sometimes wanting. Leaves in 



